Collection

Last Existence: Birth Cycle

Part of a panel with two registers separated by a straight festoon of lanceolate leaves. The base is a plain fillet, the cornice is not preserved. There are large vertical tool marks on the back. The bottom register depicts scenes from the last existence separated by encased semi-columns of Gandharan-Corinthian …

Buddha and bodhisattva

Fragment of a relief depicting a buddha and a bodhisattva. Deep horizontal chisel marks run on the back of the object. On the right sits a bodhisattva in padmāsana, he wears large globular earrings, and his hair is up in a bun with a string at the base. He has …

Buddha

A headless stele statue depicting the Buddha. The Buddha is seated in padmasanā and dhyanamudrā over a seat covered by a cloth hanging in double u-shaped diaper fold. He is wrapped in his overrobe with round neckline. He has covered feet and exposed hands; falling from the left wrist is …

Storey of stūpa

Half of a small stūpa drum with part of a large central hole. There are toolmarks and drawing lines on the top side. The decoration consists of a chequered grid with alternating relief squares, interrupted by a framed rosette of four petals on oblique axes, sepals and pistils. This decorated …

Buddha

Fragment of a statue depicting a standing Buddha. Deep horizontal tool marks cross the back of the statue, similar marks run vertically across the bottom. Buddha’s feet stand on a low podium whose front is decorated with a row of square panels bisected into triangles each containing an indented …

Umbrella

A lotus shaped umbrella belonging to a stūpa.

Modular element of monument

Modular element of a small stūpa or pillar. It is circular in section with a central hole and bears a cornice with moulding with cyma recta.

Stepped cornice

Stepped cornice of a square harmikā. There is a deeply incised hollow on the top surface, carved with a large chisel whose marks run parallel across the area. The first, smaller, step is decorated with row of overrlapped pipal leaves. The next two levels have half-rosettes within filletted opposite triangles …

Buddha

A stele statue depicting the Buddha seated in padmasanā and dhyanamudrā. He is wrapped in his overrobe with v-shaped neckline. He has covered feet, and undistinguishable hands; falling from the left wrist is still visible a separated hem of the saṃghāti. The Buddha has large bulging eyes, a broad nose …

Figures

Part of a cornice depicting a row of female busts. The back face shows vertical marks of a large chisel. Marks of a smaller tool cover the bottom. To the right of the top face there is a horizontal socket for cramp; in the centre there is a mason mark …

Last Existence: Birth Cycle

Part of a relief with two superimposed registers, the lower depicting two scenes from the Last existence, the upper showing a row of female busts. The two registers are separated by a chequered grid with alternating relief squares; a hanging drape is carved in the centre. The scenes on the …

Male donor

A statue representing a standing male donor. There are toolmarks on the bottom. The figure is standing in frontal position, the weight of the body rests on the right leg, while the left knee is slightly bent. The right hand rests on the hip and the left hand is up …

Male devotee

A fragment representing a male devotee. The figure stands slightly tilted to his left with hands joined in a gesture of veneration. He wears an uttarīya hanging from the left shoulder in a frontal loop that leaves the girdle of the paridhāna exposed. The latter falls in pointed ends. He …

Male figures

Part of a figured cornice of small stūpa. There is a socket for cramp on the left side of the top face. The cornice includes a stylized straight festoon with lozenges, a row of busts of weight bearers, and a smooth torus between plain fillets. The extant fragment shows four …

Figures in pairs

Part of a relief depicting pairs. There are large almost vertical chisel marks on the back and on the right end there is an S shaped mason mark. To the right side on the top there is a rectangular tenon. On the opposite side on the bottom there is another …

Buddhas and devotees

Part of a relief depicting a series of generic scenes with buddha and devotees. The base is a plain fillet, the cornice a projecting plain fillet. There are deep vertical chisel marks on the back of the relief, chisel marks also run across the bottom side. On the top there …

Last Existence: Princely Life

Part of a relief depicting scenes from the Last Existence. The projecting base is a plain fillet, while the finish of the cornice is not preserved. There are parallele vertical chisel marks on the back. The scenes are separated by a framed semi-column of the Gandharan-Corinthian type. The first scene …

Scenes of Adoration

Part of a false-niche with scenes of adoration. There are large vertical chisel marks on the back, and a rectangular tenon on the bottom. The fragmentary central nave depicts a Bodhisattva seated in padmāsana and dhyanamudrā on a seat covered by decorated fabric. The decorative motif consists of a perimetric …

Buddha

A stele statue depicting the Buddha. The back face shows scattered tool marks. The Buddha is sitting in padmāsana over a seat decorated with a row of square panels bisected into triangles each containing a smaller triangle. The right hand is in abhayamudrā, the palm is marked by an incised …

Previous Births: Dīpaṃkara Legend

A panel depicting the Dīpaṃkara Legend. The bodhisattva as the ascetic Sumati pays homage to Dīpaṃkara – a buddha of the past – with flowers obtained from a woman, and by lying down and spreading his hair on the ground to make a passage over the mud for the Awakened One. Then …